A woman thought to have attended one of Dubai’s now-infamous “porta potty” parties claims she heard four words before she was “thrown off” a roof.
A recent documentary released by the BBC, titled Death in Dubai: #Dubaiportapotty, shed light on an unsettling trend where women are supposedly tricked into so-called “porta potty” parties in the Middle Eastern city, having been promised careers there.
The parties, it’s claimed, are a front for a sex ring operating out of Dubai’s wealthiest, most glamorous neighorhoods, and seek to take advantage of vulnerable women.
They’re rumored to involve models with large social media followings being lured by extremely rich men to perform degrading, often sexual acts in return for cash, gifts or free accommodation at lavish hotels.
Two women, Monic Karungi and Kayla Birungi, fell to their deaths from high-rise buildings in Dubai. Both deaths were ruled suicides.
Another woman, Maria Kovalchuk, is said to have very nearly met with a similar fate. She told a Russian news outlet that her harrowing experience played out in March, and that she’s now wheelchair bound and cannot walk with assistance after possibly being thrown from a roof.
Kovalchuk, a Ukrainian model with 7,000 followers on Instagram, claims she was only in Dubai for the night having missed her flight to Thailand.
Ultimately she would be missing for over a week before being discovered on a roadside, scalped and bloodied. Her family had feared she had been sold into “sexual slavery”.
Kovalchuk says she was invited to a party by a young Russian man in a hotel lobby. She told Russian outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti: “[He] offered for her to stay in his room and claimed that his father could fly her to Thailand on a private jet.”
But when she accompanied him to said party, she was teased for not drinking, before being “shoved” and ordered to carry out sexual acts with businessmen.
She refused and tried to escape, only to be told “you belong to us”. Kovalchuk claims when she attempted to leave, she was physically dragged back in.
“Then they started intimidating me, smashing glass. After that, they took my personal belongings, which included my passport. And one of the girls….put on my things and just left in them, although before that I asked her not to do this, [and] to leave my things. That is, no one heard me, and she just left the hotel in my dress.”
The report added that Kovalchuk escaped and hid at a nearby construction site when the men stepped out onto the balcony. She was later found by her would-be captors, who were “out of their minds” at this point. They then proceeded to “beat her.”
Kovalchuk doesn’t exactly remember the sequence of events that followed, though her injuries were consistent with a fall from height.
The Ukrainian model explained: “I think that maybe I was thrown. Or it was a beating. One of two options, the injuries looked like either a beating or a fall.
“Most likely, there was a blow to the head, I suppose. The next scene [that] I remember is me asking for help from a passing car, which had already stopped and called an ambulance and the police.”
She further alleges that the CCTV from the area was wiped, leaving “no evidence”.
One report claimed that the men responsible had been found and detained for a day, though no charges were filed.
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